Prison Quotes · Page 39

I just don't think somebody that's been to prison is allowed to say what the standard is.

— Greg Hardy

“My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”

— William Penn

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

— Nadine Gordimer

The most dangerous prisons are those with invisible bars

— Tariq Ramadan

“Yes, fear was the kind of prison where you made yourself the inmate and the jailer.”

— A.J. Sand

“Man is afraid of prison although he himself consists of cells.”

— Mikhail Turovsky

After I won but then lost my world title I ended up with no money. Then my dad died in prison.

— Shannon Briggs

as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.

— William S. Burroughs

“Poverty and a lack of education are the tools used to manipulate their minds. They are in prison just like us, only…

— Nigel Brennan

When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may…

— Elizabeth Fry

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a…

— Benazir Bhutto

“Today, the United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any nation in the world—possibly the highest rate in the history…

— David Cay Johnston

Every soul confined in a prison of sin, guilt, or perversion has a key to the gate. The key is labeled “repentance.”…

— Boyd K. Packer

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've always believed in the goodness of people. I teach in prison. They all said, don't do it. Carry a gun, take…

— John Waters

When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush,…

— Ja Rule

I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world,…

— Carlo Rovelli

“The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Two prisoners…

— Simone Weil

Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal…

— Ken Bates

“Guards punished anyone caught taking bones from the garbage by fastening the bone between his teeth, across his mouth, and then tying…

— George Levy

“Mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses are the primary reason that the U.S. prison population has ballooned since the 1980s to over…

— Piper Kerman

When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In 1970, there were approximately 330,000 prisoners in the US. Today there are 2.3 million behind bars - more than any country…

— Sam Branson

The land of the free - we've got an army marching around the world under the banner of freedom, and yet, we…

— Glenn Loury

By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

— Ronnie Radke

“It was easy to rack up Evil Overlord points in prison.”

— Cassandra Clare Holly Black

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

— Erich Fromm

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

— Richard Wurmbrand

I'm trying to deal with the thirty years I spent in prison, not the physical, because of existentialism.

— Jedi Mind Tricks

I know the air of hopelessness and what people in prison go through.

— Isaac Wright Jr

“I like visiting people in prison. I can say whatever I want to them, and they can’t do anything about it.”

— Brandon Sanderson

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

— Vittorio Alfieri

“Rooms without a view are like prisons for the people who have to stay in them.”

— Tom DeMarco

From age 16 to 26, I literally became a man in prison so it was influential in shaping me.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.

— Orlando Jones

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

— Anonymous

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

— Maajid Nawaz

Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

— Michelle Alexander

“To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things.”

— Louise Penny